The evening world., 1887-10-14

too. Old-time champion of amateur walkers
Frank Murray is called "Cinders," and
Brooklyn Baseball Club Captain Byrne's
christening of "Budweister" has got stuck
fast to Eschwege;
The FIRST single-scull race for the elegant
$500 gold challenge medal left by the late
Charles Osborne to encourage the New York
Athletic Club oarsmen will be rowed on the
Harlem on Oct. %. This race. which is a
handicap, will be rowed every year. and the
winner this year will hold the medal until he
is defeated;
If the members of the New York Athletic
Clubs eight-oared crew went around town
they, would not now be talking of securing
another aquatic trainer. No trainer in the
world could have made, them beat the
Dauntless eight in the Harlem regatta race
Roach used to train the old Dauntless team
so that they won six out of one series of seven
races they started in.
A meeting of the New York Athletic Clubs
Games Committee to take measures for u
gigantic indoor athletic meeting to be held
in Madison Square Garden early next month
will be held some night this week. The
meeting. is to be held thus early SO as to give
the crack amateurs q last chance before go.
.He Wv VI biuIlAlhS lol thO bChboh. ~ ~
include an ALL Estates Lawn Tennis
Tourney, to be held in the afternoon. THE
EVENING WORLDS suggestion of a new ath-
letic feat, a test of the hitting powers of ath-
considered. The New Yorks are to give n
series of fortnightly Saturday night enter
tainments this winter.
A team of twelve or fourteen of the New
York Athletic Clubs best men will compete
at the Highland Athletic Associations games
on its Manayupk grounds, near Philadelphia,
on Oct. 49,, All but the 1oo-yard dash and
programme will be separate contests, and the
handicapping in the 100 will be limited 30
five yards.
The light, that is the twelve-pound hammer
throwing and ~shot-pulling records are al
most certain to be broken at the. New
York Athletic Clubs Bell Medal and Del.
rich's Bronze games ct Mott Haven on Satur-
Admission to the Manhattan Athletic Clubs
final club events on the same afternoon is by
invitation.
The Athletic Association of the Twenty
Second Regiment will hold its open amateur
games on Nov. 10. There will be the follow
ing handicap events, besides the regimental
tugs-of-war for 600-pound teams: regimental
half-mle run, and the scratch obstacle race,
the so, 600 yards and one-mile, runs two
hiiO ON iuhuluB hlSh jump ohS olo u
haIf-mile steeplechase, Entries CLOSE Nov. II.
Jack Dempsey says he strips at 100 pounds
at present. The most he ever scaled was 1s1
pounds in street clothes. That was four
weeks after he fought the marine. He will
90 away to train for Reagan, Mccoy and Nc
Gee In q fortnight.
Cooking. mains will commence soon and
flying feathers are to be plenty this year. A
club Of New York bloods who got very badly
used in some chicken disputes last season
have arranged with the Williamsburg black
smith, we'll known for his square dealings,
for a main of chickens, to take place as soon
as the youngsters are fit. The cocker spoken
of returned from Albany yesterday where
he has all but settled the terms for a main of
cocks with Jimmy Dugrey, the noted Hudson
River Valley fancier. A main with the noted
Kearney brown-red strain will be a to-
morrow.
The Nassau Club, which has gathered in
the crack athletes Of the Brooklyn Athletic
Association, is prosperous financially, has a
fine quarter-mile track and will move into
the upper floors Of a big building in Wash
ington street, Brooklyn, near the Post Office,
in January. The Indians" will give a fine
programme of athletic events on Thanksgiv-
ing Day afternoon.
Johnny Reagan, who is matched to fight
Jack Dempsey in December for %, 900, under
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